TY - ABST T1 - What Not; A Prophetic Comedy Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.

PB - Constable and Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.

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